Containers

I suspect I will continue to learn lessons from my attempts to grow things. At least I hope I will. I think nature is a great teacher if we can stop and pay attention.

Wisdom for the Way, DevotionalDenise CraneJuly 26, 2023Lessons from the Garden, Theme XLVIII, gardenComment

Rosemary

When we originally put landscaping around the pool that we had saved up to build, the landscaper put in two rosemary bushes.

Wisdom for the Way, DevotionalDenise CraneJuly 19, 2023Lessons from the Garden, Theme XLVIII, gardenComment

Squash

The year I planted cucumbers I had visions of sturdy vines and helping my grandchildren play “hide and seek” for cucumbers.

Wisdom for the Way, DevotionalDenise CraneJuly 12, 2023Lessons from the Garden, Theme XLVIII, gardenComment

Cucumbers

The year I planted cucumbers I had visions of sturdy vines and helping my grandchildren play “hide and seek” for cucumbers.

Wisdom for the Way, DevotionalDenise CraneJune 28, 2023Lessons from the Garden, Theme XLVIII, gardenComment

Plant Selection

In my planning for what to grow in our yard here in Texas, I have finally started to crack the code on what to consider.

Wisdom for the Way, DevotionalDenise CraneJune 27, 2023Lessons from the Garden, Theme XLVIII, gardenComment

Wanna Be

I am a “wanna be” gardener. I say that knowing that I have not turned my black thumb into a green thumb yet, but I am headed in a better direction.

Wisdom for the Way, DevotionalDenise CraneJune 20, 2023Lessons from the Garden, Theme XLVIII, gardenComment

Wisdom from the Winter Garden

By Kate Rudd

The winter garden is not beautiful to the untrained eye. No more neat, vibrant rows of lettuce, carrots, chard, squash, and tomatoes. No colorful display of flower blossoms or insects abuzz. No neighborhood children running to pick carrots—exclaiming over how a radish grows. Nothing but empty lines, sad perennials. The intelligent gardener uses winter to enrich their soil with a diverse jungle of cover crops to nurture microbial activity, replenish nutrients depleted from last season, and build the soil by growing then composting organic matter. These techniques significantly enhance next season’s potential, but in winter this looks like chaos that doesn’t fill harvest baskets. It is generally barren, decaying, messy. It seems meaningless and a little depressing.

Wisdom for the Way, Inter-ThemeAndrea LingleDecember 27, 2017Kate Rudd, garden, community gardenComment

The Cochran House

The Cochran House, an MWF Epworth House
by Justin Hancock

Dear Friends,

The residents of Cochran House have spent the last several weeks out in the garden, clearing away grass and weeds and turning the earth in preparation for planting both winter and spring seeds. It occurs to me that this is very much like what we have been doing as a community in relating to both our neighborhood and our anchor church.

Spotlight, Wisdom for the WayMissional Wisdom FoundationDecember 1, 2017Epworth House, Justin Hancock, garden, Epworth Project, communityComment

Community Garden

Haw Creek Commons Community Garden
This week's guest author, Kate Rudd, is the Cultivator at Haw Creek Commons in Asheville, NC.

Haw Creek Commons has a new addition: a community garden! The 3,000 square foot Haw Creek Garden is situated in front of the parsonage, or Haw Creek House, and is open to neighbors who want to learn and grow food.